![]() ![]() ![]() Ultimately, “George Kay came in with an idea we all loved,” he added. “Does Omar actually play Lupin? Is it contemporary or classic?” “Our first step was to figure out where we wanted to go,” Leterrier said in a video call. (The series was produced by Gaumont for Netflix.) He said that it took a little while to zero in on a concept. The French filmmaker Louis Leterrier (“The Transporter,” “The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance”), who directed the first three episodes of “Lupin,” was an early member of the creative team, from before the idea was brought to Netflix. “Because there’s lots about Lupin I love: the tricks, the cons.” “But when I was told that Netflix wanted to do it with Omar Sy, he was attached, the combination of those two things made it really interesting to me,” Kay said. George Kay (“Criminal”), the show’s British creator and showrunner, said in a video chat that he had been more familiar with other turn-of-the-20th-century pop culture creations like Sherlock Holmes, the Scarlet Pimpernel or A.J. I became totally addicted by working on ‘Lupin.’” “Later on, I connected the dots between the books, the TV shows I saw as a kid, and some mangas. “Honestly, it was just something you had to know, a part of culture,” he said. Sy, who is also credited as an artistic producer, acknowledged that when he first proposed basing a project on Lupin, he was mostly familiar with the character’s reputation. Sy, 42, plays not Lupin but a debonair Parisian named Assane Diop, the son of a Senegalese immigrant, who idolizes the fictional thief.
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